Line Chart
What is the Line Chart Widget?
The Line Chart is one of the core widget types available in Birdie Dashboards. It is designed to help you visualize how a metric evolves over time by plotting data points connected by a continuous line. With support for multiple series displayed simultaneously, the Line Chart makes it easy to track trends, identify peaks and drops, and compare performance across different areas, teams, or feedback channels, all within a single view.
How to extract the most value from the Line Chart?
The Line Chart is most valuable when your primary question involves change over time. Use it when you want to answer questions such as:
How has the volume of feedback from my different support channels changed over the past 30 days?
Which areas of the product are generating the most feedback this quarter compared to last?
Are certain feedback categories growing or declining week over week?
Because the Line Chart supports breakdowns by dimensions like Areas or Opportunities, you can layer multiple series onto one chart and immediately see which segments are driving changes in your data.
Setting up a Line Chart
Configure the data source
Navigate to the Setup tab to define what data the chart will display.
Metric: Select the metric you want to track. For example, choose Overall to display aggregate feedback counts across all sources.
Breakdown: Select a dimension to split the metric into multiple series. For instance, selecting Areas will render one line per area on the chart.
Selection: Use the selection dropdown to choose which specific items within the breakdown to include. By default, all available items are selected.
Limit: Set the maximum number of series displayed on the chart. This is useful when a breakdown returns many results and you only want to surface the most relevant ones.
You can toggle Set vertical axis range to manually define the minimum and maximum values for the Y-axis, which is useful for standardizing charts across your dashboard.
Set filters
Navigate to the Filter tab to control the time range and granularity of the data shown.
Date range: Select the period you want the chart to cover. The default is Last 30 days.
Time aggregation: Choose how data is grouped along the X-axis. The default is Week, which plots one data point per week.
Advanced filters: Use the Add filter option to refine the data further, for example, by a specific tag, sentiment, or source. You can also enable Ignore global filter if you want this widget to display independently of any dashboard-level filters.
Customize series labels and colors
Navigate to the Customization tab to review and edit how each series is labeled and colored on the chart.
Each breakdown item appears as a numbered series (Serie 1, Serie 2, and so on).
You can rename any series label by editing the text field next to it.
Click the color swatch to change the color assigned to that series.
Renaming series labels is especially useful when the default breakdown names are long or technical. Clearer labels make the chart easier to read for teammates who may not be familiar with the underlying data structure.
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